Chris Pine Quotes
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.
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Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.
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Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.
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PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently.
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I am not into publicity. I'm not good at it. I get anxiety about it.
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Both music and acting are huge parts of my life - it's all about balance.
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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
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Cubanas are very strong women. So don't mess with us - don't take us for granted!
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You want to be excited about what you're doing. So whenever I get tired, I think, 'Would ten-year-old Adam be pretty stoked on what I'm doing and what's happening?' So I just live my life as if I'm using my ten-year-old brain.
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Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.
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Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.
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I was obsessed with learning about social behaviors. I remember explaining to my mom that kids on my soccer team were fighting because of dyads and triads.
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God's hand is strange to us. He cares nothing for the moment, nothing for the feeble ambitions of men and women. He sees the road that flows onward forever.
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I shall honour the Quakers for their noble Effort to abolish Slavery. It is equally calculated to promote moral & political Good.
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The dimple that thy chin contains has beauty in its round,That never has been fathomed yet by myriad thoughts profound.
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She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing...
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It's a three-hour or deal, and actually a waste of time.
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I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.
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My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
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I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.
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My fans have designated themselves the, uh, 'Pine Nuts.' They're a nutty bunch.
